The delivery of health services represents one of the most daunting challenges confronting contemporary management. The complexity of the issues involved suggests that health service policy makers seeking to allocate scarce resources would find the opportunities offered by large scale modelling...

One method of pursuing efficiency in the public sector has been the publication of performance indicators for individual agencies. It is often unclear how these indicators should be interpreted in isolation. This paper uses data envelopment analysis to show how the data underlying performance...

Random patterns of absence amongst consultant and junior anaesthetists gave rise to problems in fulfilling all the anaesthetic department's commitments. This paper describes how dynamic programming was used to produce a timetable of anaesthetic commitments that would minimise the number of...